Word: mucous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BORIC ACID, once a favorite remedy for minor irritations such as diaper rash and prickly heat, can be fatal. Most insidious are the cases in which frequent application allows boric acid to be absorbed into the body through broken or irritated skin or through mucous membranes. Since the body is slow to eliminate the chemical, it accumulates in the liver and kidneys; in infants it sometimes causes nausea, convulsions and death. For years pediatricians have been wary of boric acid. Now a research team at St. John's University College of Pharmacy in New York City has developed...
...cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl, and what surgery is indicated. With abnormal chromosomes, mental retardation is often present. Dr. Barr...
...commonest sites for them is in the mucous lining of the nose, where Mrs. Ribicoff had them. Doctors have tried to help similar patients with cauteries and radium, but always unsuccessfully, and Mrs. Ribicoff refused these treatments. Then she heard of the new operation devised by Ohio State University's Dr. William Howerton Saunders...
...thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side of the septum, sewed the nose together again, and packed it. The grafts, inside the nostrils, should take by early this week...
...intonation for Debs' famous, "While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free." As a senescent but energetic healthcultist at a burlesque show, he has a chesty mucous cough which could serve as a symbol of all in the world that is randy, aging, decaying...